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WATER WHEEL.

No- 62,605.- Patented Mar.- 5; 1867.

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IMPROVEMBN T IN WATER-WHEELS.

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TO ALL WHOM IT M AY CONCERN:

Be it known tli'atl, MICHAEL CARPENTER, of Moscow, in the county of Muscatine, and State of Iowa, have invented a new and useful Improvement in rater-Wheels; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exactescription of the same, reference being' had te the annexed drawings, made part of this specication, in which- Figure l is a perspective view.

Figure 2 is a top view.

Figure 3 is a section on the line x, Iig. 2.

Figure 4 is ,a perspective view of the Wheel detached. Thesame letters refer to identical parts.

A represents the fore-bay, which I construct in twocoinpartments A and A', the warterentering from A- into A through an opening closed 'oy an ordinary'sliding gate. Bis a cylindrical tube surrounding the shaft, and open below, upon the upper face of the wheel. This fits into the cap C, underneath which the water is introduced upon the Wheel through several guildes, D, which are soformed as todirect the water perpendicularly against the face of the nfformed buckets of' the wheel marked I. The guides or openings D are closed by gates, E, sliding vertically and covering the faces of these openings.v rl'lhese gates are particularlyjntendell for regulating the water according to the variations in the supply; they may, however, be united hy'a ring, and used for ordinary gates irl stopping and starting by an ordinary arrangement., Ej is the sha-ft, standing vertically and supported-by a step, 0n a bridge-tree below, in the ordinary manner. The wheel is formed in two parts. The upper portion ciy the Awheel is formed with buckets, I, composed vof thin sheets of wrought iron or @tbox-suitable material set vertically and radially. They are supported above by the ring H, to which they are bolted. The water acts. upon these buckets simply by percussion. G is the hub of the wheel, to which the shaft is keyed. The upper face of the hub is formed with volute corrugations, having vertical faces, gradually increasing from 'near the centre to the' circumference, where they terminate in the orifices Kin the rim of the Wheel, having the form used in reaction wheels of the ordinary construction. By the means described I claim to combine the percussion force with the power of'reaction, and thus utilize the entire head of Water.

What I claim as my invention, and seek to secure by Letters Patent, is-

In combination with the guides D and gates E,I claim the wheel with the vertical and radially dispersed buckets I, and hub G, and orifices K; the parts being severally constructed, and the whole arranged for use substantially in the manner set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribingwitnesses.

' MICHAEL CARPENTER. lNi tn esses:

W. CAMPBELL, Jos. CRANE. 

